Thirty Quotes - Page 27

• If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

  Daniela Pestova

  Beach, Morning, Vacation

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• I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

  Joseph McCabe

  Rights, Years, Two

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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• I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.

  Shel Silverstein

  Work, Creating, Style

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• A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Journey, Turkeys, United States

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• I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

  Mickey Rooney

  Boys, Years, Thirteen

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• These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

  Frederick Douglass

  Taken, School, Race

  Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (1849). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.82

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• And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.

  Kerry Greenwood

  Wise, Grief, Angel

  Kerry Greenwood (2011). “Cocaine Blues”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.

  William Beebe

  Ocean, Silly, Eye

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• As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Song, Eye, Men

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it

  Jean-Paul Belmondo

  Inspiration, Men

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• It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still
  writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Writing, Appreciate

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Writing, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream, Years, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Success, Dream, Reality

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

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• Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see on the screen is violence as an almost casual commonplace of daily living. Violence becomes the fundamental principle of society, the natural law of humanity. Killing is as common as taking a walk, a gun more natural than an umbrella. Children learn to take pride in force and to feel ashamed of ordinary sympathy. They are encouraged to forget that people have feelings.

  Fredric Wertham

  Children, Moving, Pride

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• If Thirty Seconds to Mars was a human being then he fans would be the veins and the band would be the heart. The fans are what connect the essence of the music around the world and keep the us alive.

  Shannon Leto

  Heart, Essence, Fans

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• Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Groups, Looks, Dozen

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.324, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Tired, Years

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• Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Age, Favors

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

  Freeman Patterson

  Mean, Trying, Six

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• I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Years, May

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.19, Knopf

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• Europe is good at many things, which is why we are the largest exporter in the world. Thirty million people in Europe are employed in making our exports of goods and services. Just under 900 thousand of them are in Sweden.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  Europe, People, World

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• Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Two, Enough, Coups

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